"The modern idea of a Great Man..." - Quote by C S Lewis

“They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.”

“The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.”

“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”

“In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?”

“Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.”

“The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.”

“The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture.”

“Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.”

“Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.”